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...long, however, before a stream of international aid began to supplement the Turkish efforts. A fleet of 25 U.S. military cargo planes ferried tents, blankets, stoves and fuel from Europe. Iran, West Germany, Italy and other nations added similar supplies, plus medicine and blood plasma. Saudi Arabia pledged $5 million to the relief effort. The Turkish government announced that survivors who wished to move would be settled outside the quake area, in schools and student hostels. Due to the frozen ground in eastern Turkey, reconstruction of the shattered homes is unlikely to start before spring...
Newspapers and petroleum companies are not obvious and natural allies. So it came as a surprise to many Britons last week when the Sunday Observer (circ. 668,000), one of Fleet Street's most literate papers, was purchased by the Atlantic Richfield Co., a $7 billion Los Angeles-based oil giant. The token price: one pound sterling, or about...
...Astors had received other bids for the Observer-from Fleet Street, four Arab countries and even a Hong Kong patent-medicine heiress. Until last week the leading suitor was Publisher Rupert Murdoch, the Australian whose three-continent newspaper empire includes London's Sun and News of the World and who two weeks ago agreed to buy the New York Post. But the Astors were troubled that many of Murdoch's 87 newspapers are distinguished chiefly by their attention to sex and scandal, and Murdoch would not guarantee editorial independence to Observer editors...
More surprising, the government at the same time issued a deportation letter against a U.S.-born Fleet Street journalist, Mark Hosenball, who had frequently used Agee as a source of information. Scotland Yard did not detail the charges against Hosenball other than to assert that he had "sought information for publication which would be harmful to state security...
Though the Home Office strongly denied that it had acted under U.S. pressure, the connection was clear enough on Fleet Street, where Agee has long been a ready source of statements critical of the CIA. He promptly charged that the CIA had pressed for his expulsion, claiming that the agency wants to disrupt his current project: a second volume of revelations about his former employer...